Mike (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} iaminyourhead) wrote,@ 2007-12-31 12:35:00 |
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Random URLs make Mike Happy.
Sometimes, when I'm bored, I type random URLs into my browser, so see what will happen. Sometimes nothing at all happens. Sometimes I find more boring porn, and sometimes, just sometimes, I strike digital gold. Silicon Valley Tea, if you will. Well I should prolly pack up my bags and move to Beverlee, because this morning, I found the greatest site to ever happen to music.
Pandora Radio is amazingly amazing. Here's the idea: You put in the name of a band, song, or composer you like, and Pandora searches the Music Genome Project for it. If and when it comes up with a result (I was able to stump it with both Texas Faggot and Monkey Steals The Peach, but it recognized Splashdown, The Minibosses, Universal Hall Pass, and The Trouble With Those Mothra Girls) it creates a radio station, with that selection, and others that share a bunch of qualities with it. For instance, I ask it for Pink Floyd, and it first plays Dogs, and tells me this:
"To Start things off, we'll play a song that exemplifies the musical style of Pink Floyd, which features [several things that Pink Floyd's music typically features, like the chosen instruments, tonal variation, and so on]"
Then it plays other songs, sometimes also by Pink Floyd, and sometimes by other bands, that while they don't sound like Pink Floyd, they are in many ways similar, and as such, if you like Pink Floyd, you'll like them too.
Too add to the likelihood that when you turn on your radio station you've had Pandora create for you, that you'll actually like what you hear, you can tell it, while a song is playing, that you really like it, and that you want to hear more by the band what did it, that you don't like it, and to edit the station's playlist to include fewer tracks like it, or even that you've heard this particular song once too often, and you'd like it not to be played for a month. You can also add another band to the station, as well as all the bands they would play for you connected to that new band were it the seed for a new station.
One word of warning, after you've toyed with it for about 15 minutes or so, it'll suddenly stop playing, and ask you to register. Don't worry, it's not a pay service. But you'll have to register to continue playing with it.
Final note: No download required, so if your boss is cool with you fiddling with your station during your lunch or whatever, and cool with you listening to music the rest of the time, then guess what? You're golden, even at work!
Rock out, my brothers and sisters, rock out. And remember, one of these days? End of the world if you don't visit a website I suggest. That's just my curse.
Sometimes, when I'm bored, I type random URLs into my browser, so see what will happen. Sometimes nothing at all happens. Sometimes I find more boring porn, and sometimes, just sometimes, I strike digital gold. Silicon Valley Tea, if you will. Well I should prolly pack up my bags and move to Beverlee, because this morning, I found the greatest site to ever happen to music.
Pandora Radio is amazingly amazing. Here's the idea: You put in the name of a band, song, or composer you like, and Pandora searches the Music Genome Project for it. If and when it comes up with a result (I was able to stump it with both Texas Faggot and Monkey Steals The Peach, but it recognized Splashdown, The Minibosses, Universal Hall Pass, and The Trouble With Those Mothra Girls) it creates a radio station, with that selection, and others that share a bunch of qualities with it. For instance, I ask it for Pink Floyd, and it first plays Dogs, and tells me this:
"To Start things off, we'll play a song that exemplifies the musical style of Pink Floyd, which features [several things that Pink Floyd's music typically features, like the chosen instruments, tonal variation, and so on]"
Then it plays other songs, sometimes also by Pink Floyd, and sometimes by other bands, that while they don't sound like Pink Floyd, they are in many ways similar, and as such, if you like Pink Floyd, you'll like them too.
Too add to the likelihood that when you turn on your radio station you've had Pandora create for you, that you'll actually like what you hear, you can tell it, while a song is playing, that you really like it, and that you want to hear more by the band what did it, that you don't like it, and to edit the station's playlist to include fewer tracks like it, or even that you've heard this particular song once too often, and you'd like it not to be played for a month. You can also add another band to the station, as well as all the bands they would play for you connected to that new band were it the seed for a new station.
One word of warning, after you've toyed with it for about 15 minutes or so, it'll suddenly stop playing, and ask you to register. Don't worry, it's not a pay service. But you'll have to register to continue playing with it.
Final note: No download required, so if your boss is cool with you fiddling with your station during your lunch or whatever, and cool with you listening to music the rest of the time, then guess what? You're golden, even at work!
Rock out, my brothers and sisters, rock out. And remember, one of these days? End of the world if you don't visit a website I suggest. That's just my curse.
